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That is not even a modern low floor bus. The Benz is worth more.

Well duh, you think they're going to use their phone while driving? They're a Bitcoin trader, not a maniac!

Looks like photoshop.

Public transit is generally faster than driving around in big cities, especially places like NYC and Boston (at least when the T is actually operating as-intended).

Hell I live 45 miles away from my office and most days it is faster to do train-->subway-->half mile walk.

To these types of people, especially...time is money. You would think they would prefer public transit just for the time efficiency...or at least invest in it just to reduce the amount of traffic they have to deal with on the roads.

You don't even see Musk riding around on a goddamn Segway. Which actually turns out to be a somewhat common Mandela effect, because I had to look it up to find out he didn't actually invent/start Segway.

I don't think I've seen this before. But it's perfect.

The real value Bitcoins tech brought us is immutable ledgers. We need our money to go through immutable ledgers.

There would be no "release your tax returns," itd be public domain.

We need that shit.

That is why I was sp excited about XRP replacing SWIFT, it just made sense as a better method of Payments. I was heavy into XRP, and I got off the ride last year after 7 years of treading water

I loved the idea of crypto. There was even a niche but growing Crypto Leftist movement, creating tech/apps to help the working class (Breadchain), but in 4 years they built basically nothing. Then just fucking everything else got captured by VC money, big tech, and institutions. It's just capitalism 2.0 now. It's such a shame.

I remember the moment it clicked for me that this was the case. In early 2018 I overheard my roommate listening to a Bitcoin podcast hosted by people I understood to be prominent members of the community. They were trying to justify why it was a good thing Steam no longer accepted Bitcoin to purchase games. I couldn’t see a single upside to a currency, whose purpose is to be exchanged for goods and services, no longer being accepted for a good. I thought about the large amount of crypto the podcasters likely held and how they were probably trying to keep other people in to keep their own crypto worth more. But if the people near the helm were no longer able to admit when something is wrong, then the dream was dead, crypto was dead to me, and I stopped getting more.

When was it not?

People only complained they didn't get in before 2016 so they could be rich.

But it needs regulation like any other currency.

It was a gov backed choice to pump and dump it, cause apparently thats peak economic strategy these days.

fair, decentralised, convenient, fast, secure money system

Can't believe the scam money for scammers isn't about the core principles of equity, efficiency, and security anymore.

What has become of the Mt. Gox's of yesteryear?

Yeah I too like Blockchain stuff until it just turned into an investor bro space.

Like this whole argument about how to prove someone owns a game could be a really good blockchain use case.